and standing kids. and gents does a camp. all to keep me. going i cannot believe. that so many millions. f. put off the wall has done muslims. want to. hear from you what. you. did. and we. should. mention. i will tell a story. i want their own story. because a. must. on september 1st 939 nazi germany invaded poland the attack on leash the storm that had been gathering for 2 decades germany's to. feat and world war one had left the country humiliated its economy shattered providing an opportunity for a radical nationalist movement led by at off the. hitler's rhetoric blamed those who had supposedly weakened the nation most of all he blamed the jews he was determined to expel every jew in germany and eventually beyond as the nazis expanded into austria czechoslovakia and elsewhere when the occupation of poland brought 2000000 jews under nazi control the notion of expulsion increasingly gave way to murder even in the most remote villages of europe no jew was safe. i was born in 1000 silty 4 intensity of a near all media in the dining village called port. weaver is the only jewish families or village in the woods or more this family is there where 6 people my father earl xander my mother just all this is my middle sister our lives and miriam and i we're very few. and the nice singable being a twin. always had the child so we never felt lonely. we lived on a be all and far. be all just with a lot of trees i always remember being under a cherry tree in the juicy cherries looking at the sky and in 1000 for me i was 6 years old and the 100 guineas are killed by their village and everything change. when hungary allied with germany a nightmare began for jews in the country and its occupied territory evil recalls the 1st film she and miriam saw which depicted how to catch and kill a jew their school days became torture the kids started calling us names miriam and me. and dirty jews. then they could begin speaking on us dumping girls and beating ourselves on the basis the teacher did not sink. in dakar near munich the 1st nazi concentration camp was opened less than 2 months after hitler became german chancellor as anti semitic policies intensified the number of camps grew into the thousands increasingly they were used to detain jews with the so-called final solution the nazis $941.00. cision to annihilate the jews of europe a number of internment camps became killing centers most of the murders were done by gassing the corpses were buried in mass graves or burned in crematoria. auschwitz 1st opened in 1940 but soon proved too small so 2 years later construction began on a new camp just over 2 kilometers away it would become the largest mass murder site in human history it was known as auschwitz 2 or birkenau. they came loose horses and they said that we have come to take you away. this 3. they're lined people. nobody smiled nobody said of war. between may and july 944 more than 430000 hungary and jews half of the pre-war population arrived at birkenau by cattle car railway tracks led directly into the camp to deliver the prisoners within 100 meters of the main gas chambers the most his family was among the 1st to step down onto the freshly hardened concrete of the unloading and selection platform enough he was running in the middle of this election platform very clear really yelling in german doings. you know this medium in me and he demanded to know if you but when the my mother said yes and that moment then i would not see appear from nowhere poor my mother to the right. and i can see still as my mother the best stretching the water gods as she whispered the way. it was so much pain in her eyes. and it is the latest in me that i have moved my mother. most underwent a different selection nearly 90 percent were immediately marched to the gas chambers men and women deemed stronger were sent in the opposite direction to a world of starvation and brutal labor until they died or were murdered for the rights. of the left. in the nazis attempt to propagate a perfect every in race another group were subjected to medical experiments of greatest interest for sets of twins they were set aside in special barracks separated by gender and tattooed with a number on their arms eva and mary a moses became numbers 870-638-7064 in the morning they were awakened by a visit from the so-called angel of death dr joseph mengele. one of the supervisors will be a guard this the man. everybody straight then don't like little soldiers he was at the cutting edge as he thought of it it's not seen gen x. ray science he would establish by working on human beings who knows 1st on those twins not only maybe unlock the secrets of twin births so that after the war every good german mother could have 2 german children to have just one but unlock the secrets of how to engineer a race that look more like the master race and that ambition over rode all conscience and sense of morality on monday wednesday and friday we would march a bomb to my internet have the ocean it's one where we would be placed in a room naked for about 8 hours they would measure every part of my body compare it to my twin sister and compare it to chalk. on choose silverstein south or maybe we would be taken to another lab where i call so bloodline. you could have about 30 kids in here at the time. they chair was a little out of the lake there and we put our arms out. and they died this early and think there are 3 sentiments and they took lots of blood from here and lots of injections to hear the content of those injections we didn't know then nor do i know them today. after one injection eva became feverish and was taken to the hospital. determined she had only 2 weeks to live but eva defied him after a little more than a month she was back in the barracks and life as she knew it resumed experiments starvation stealing food surviving in a landscape of death. at the time so that seemed to be going on salute the old. and then suddenly it came to an end by january 1945 it was clear the nazis were on the brink of defeat and most of the auschwitz prisoners had been forced marched to other camps eva and merriam were among those left behind on january 27th the russians came. there were lots of people they that already been white come with the leisure and all i had no idea who was a where but there was not important one thing was important and they didn't look like the nazis and that had to be good. the russians were stunned by what they found around 7000 survivors most nearly frozen feeble barely able to move dead bodies littered the ground. there were 114 among. them and they were now expected through overcome. the joy of liberation was tempered by the terrible uncertainty of what had happened to their families but a flicker of hope remained i wanted to see my home. it was such a must i cannot go on anywhere without seeing my whole we good. the journey home took 9 arduous months finally a year and a half after being taken from their home they were back in ports. so now we are finally heading call the running down the. hoping that somebody would be home was something good would happen there. we ended. up at the. disappointment. and disappointment and. sadness. you know that's got to be for 11 year olds us terribly traumatic and how do you deal with. where do i go what do we do. the homework i did in the book was only was the walls. nobody who are supposed to be as i was there. the twins were taken in by their aunt irena in a neighboring city where they lived for 5 years under communist rule you raina had also suffered devastating loss her husband and son were murdered in the holocaust. in all 1100000 people were murdered in auschwitz 1000000 of them jews 3000 twins were subjected to experiments an estimated 200 survived in 1952 of those survivors eva and mary a moses now 16 embark for israel to start a new life. where 3000 people on the ship sailing with the military in 3 in riyadh i june 19th and i finally in the port of haifa was early morning the sun was rising over above the amount of mother. and 3000 people so. the doubt and say the hebrew national anthem. 10 years later even moses was to arrive on yet another shore as a newly wed but still haunted by auschwitz always shit. memorial play each. we can those are the voices of the children saved from the ashes we will not let their world forget what happened here in our streets we will show or children they are their grandparents how gusts are the very last time. we were locked arrest until dr mengele a scot and both the justice. ready ready for. during her decade in israel even attended an agricultural school and served in the army then she met an american tourist they had something in common michael mickey core a jew from latvia had been imprisoned in brooklyn vault and other camps for nearly 4 years he was liberated by a u.s. soldier from terre haute indiana and eventually moved there after he learned that his parents had been murdered he graduated from purdue university became a u.s. soldier and a pharmacist while visiting israel his life took another turn he was a mere full. blown off for. several violin player long lines are. all in the school and all of. the early years in indiana seemed idyllic a son was born and then a daughter baseball games birthday parties bike riding with picnic lunches under the surface however a storm was raging a storm evil would only begin to understand decades later it was paid a lot of baseball. and a lot of anger. from the start eva felt isolated in indiana a young woman separated from her twin for the 1st time struggling with the language often on her own in a new world with 2 young kids a husband working double shifts and neighbors who couldn't relate to her. she was made fun of you know nobody respected her and i think she did feel a sense of purpose and sense of value. but then 3 decades after the war a 4 part mini series in 1988 called holocaust marked the 1st time the subject entered the mainstream public consciousness. there's a quote i want to joke about the docu drama the holocaust it had more impact than the original. it's implied catapulted the holocaust to the attention of not only the merkel people but also of the world . eva kaur among them she called the terre haute and b.c. affiliate to see if the show would contain archival material. they said it wouldn't but asked her for an interview she appeared on t.v. twice while the series was being broadcast and attracted a lot of attention it was transformative. schools called asking eva to tell her story she did and encountered questions about the mega experiments that she couldn't answer searching for answers would become a lifelong mission she was reclaiming her life once she woke up and was like oh my god there was a lot that happened to me from that point forward then as she began to really grow really grow. evil was determined to discover what had been done to her and miriam what they had been injected with especially miriam after she had experienced difficulties in her pregnancies her doctors discovered her kidneys had stopped growing when she was 10 in other words while she was in auschwitz for eva the 1st step in the hunt was clear find other surviving twins. it was very very important lifesaving important. in 1903 she attended the 1st major national holocaust memorial event in washington d.c. carrying a sign identifying herself as a twin tortured by magna she left disheartened that hardly anyone had heard of the mengele experiments and that amid all the ceremony very few actual survivors were asked to speak. she reached out to major newspapers magazines and television networks in the united states imploring them to help her find other mengele twins no one replied guess what nobody can. then one day she had an epiphany if she were to start an organization and named herself president the media would be more likely to listen to her that was the birth of candles children of auschwitz nazi deadly lab experiments survivors. around the same time she persuaded her brother in law in israel to put an advertisement in a major newspaper seeking other surviving twins there after all that effort she began to make progress 80 twins in israel came forward almost immediately and then finally she was contacted by a journalist. and we got so many letters which we ignored but there was a quality about. him that totally grabbed mae and i picked up the phone and i called biff what i do i think she was a real estate agent and carole hyde and they end up and they're big. this extraordinary and charming hers and mine and to this long ago world which everybody had kind of swept aside. the call set off a series of events that would shed new light on the holocaust and have repercussions on the eve of course life as lucette lagnado worked on her comprehensive story on the men when the twins eva had an idea on the 40th anniversary of their liberation have twins return to the scene of the crime make the world see them hear them it worked when the twins arrived in birkenau on january 27th 1985 and when they followed up the visit with a mock trial of mengele in jada sham israel the press was there. this weekend is the anniversary of the end of a nightmare the end of a death camp called auschwitz the end of the unspeakable horrors committed by its chief medical officer i'm not saying named joseph. a worldwide search but there's always given new impetus today by those who are his but that's put it on the radar for the mainstream media in a way that you couldn't have expected it joseph mengele is front and center and eva and the twins are responsible for having sparked that fire that is the day the mock trial ended the united states attorney general william french smith ordered the justice department to find mengele it became one of the biggest international manhunt in history israel and west germany joined in and rewards of several $1000000.00 were offered. it was revealed with great fanfare that josef mengele body had been found in a grave near south paolo brazil. a preliminary report stated that mengele had drowned 6 years earlier in 1979 while swimming off a nearby beach and that his skeleton had been authenticated quote within a reasonable scientific certainty and quote but the woman who helped initiate the hunt remains skeptical eva took to the airwaves. what is sure. to the reports that dr michael is dead and i do not believe it because in just that can make sense yes she took out a 2nd mortgage on her home to finance an $18000.00 inquest on magna in terre haute none of it made a ripple through the mantel of findings were clearly labeled preliminary the public had moved on case closed. and most of my back of that are low. nobody understood me. maybe even to be no one to understand. but i couldn't give up. i can't ever give up on the terms. in 1907 eva moses core was at rock bottom she had few friends because no one seemed to care about and was treated with scorn by the nation's biggest holocaust organizations in the fall of that year eva flew to israel to donate a kidney to her ailing sister. as miriam's condition continued to deteriorate the fight to find minima or at least his files took on an air of desperation how best to forget where he's their pets for years their goal we read in the building the wall theme to show all that they can add. so fast they don't care don't you want to walk in a jet not the cream you know that is running. the final report conclusively stating the body was madness was not published until $199027.00 and a half years after the investigation began it included several key pieces of evidence not used in the initial report and was apparently clinched by a d.n.a. match between the body and mind of the sun rose. it was a conclusion that eva continued to disagree with questioning whether the correct d.n.a. was used if they took the blood themselves from it and it was used in a d.n.a. match they might say afterwards how do we know it was done correctly once it was sent off there's always a reason to still have that doubt by burying him putting him 6 feet into the ground by putting away that ghost of mengele they've put away for so many years of this quest to find me standing there in front of her and same i with a 10 year old girl or me and my sister mary and we were 10 when you 1st took us guess what it is over and see and for me finally brought out and i will woman standing here to tell you that i've survived and and you fail. in 1903 miriam moses died of cancer related to her kidney problems she was 59 years old and because of the jewish practice of burying the body within 24 hours eva was unable to attend the funeral. the the i got a. message from kooky their hearts were. that your letter this morning. i was not prepared. to live you no more do without. again there was auschwitz all that she did experienced over the years the isolation harassment rebirth anger accomplishment and rejection always led her back to auschwitz now it had taken yet another toll in every way it came back to auschwitz. now i even malls a sport if lucas is a child joseph mengele of experiments oh shit 50 years ago he had a by give amnesty to all these who participate that directly or indirectly is a murderer of my family and millions of our eva moses born in my name only if he ever missed the big good guy to go. it was a decision of a lifetime which on the surface came about almost by chance shortly after merriam's death evil was invited to a conference about medical ethics accompanied by a peculiar request could she bring along a nazi doctor. for murder i am one of those guys. less than my book the end of the telephone book they were not ever rising to a to. a couple of years earlier if i had taken part in a german documentary that included a nazi doctor called hans minch even got in touch with him and mentor agreed to be interviewed at his home in bavaria. i was very. evil had her own agenda and was disappointed when much said he had never worked with men and had no idea where his files were however much had more to say. you see again seeing. through. this my brother. munch agreed to document what he witnessed and go to auschwitz with eva to present it in person for months eva considered how to thank him and it hit her. forgiveness she would forgive dr munch for his crimes as a nazi she wrote him a letter and had it edited by her speech professor. i remember in particular. say ok so much but what about mengele what about all the other s.s. you know are you just going to forgive much because he's there you forget the problem is not that was dr mukwege the problem is was the mengele. guy went home closed the door picked up a dictionary made the least of 20 and they're still wards. which i read clearly all through that may really mengele my rule. then i said inspired to follow that. i forgive you for her ringback that was the thing to do. something was stuck and whatever that was i did not sense that in her anymore after she went through that act of forgiveness person you're going to do what you're going to do what. and so on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz on january 27th 1995 evil moses court returned once again this time armed not with anger but peace. you know more watts no more gas gambit. no more bombs no more hate to you no more killing ringback. but even moment of personal liberation was not to everyone's liking how could she forgive someone that tortured. our somali and tortured her sister and i says that died because of it. i'll never understand 6000000 people died how much if ok here. in not even out of all the bold acts of evil course life i am he'll be it was this forgiveness that form turn legacy and that is still debated today. do i deserve still move freely. to me. and i the commander with me owns of my being there i. most of all eva's choice to forgive is about self healing and self empowerment shedding the emotional and psychological burden of what happened to her and with that the nazis control over her this way she says she was free to resume her life without anger or pain a. history or was. forgiveness if pain or. evil always made clear that it wasn't about forgetting on the contrary she fought to keep the memory of the holocaust alive so it would never be repeated this forgiveness had nothing to do with religion it was not for the perpetrator nor for anyone else it is only for herself at some question whether such a self oriented undertaking even if there are puting could be considered true forgiveness other said that especially in judaism forgiveness had to be earned and the nazis had done nothing to that in. look i'm operating out of a deeply profoundly jewish religious ethic. christianity in some of us and to a petition. has an easier view of forgiveness because of christ died for our sins. it's not that we have not certain but we are forgiven and gross is available to us through christ. we jews are a little bit more tenacious about it. eva son says he has issues with his mother's decision to forgive and yet he's witnessed its effects on his mother and on others the big criticism is why did she have to be so public with her forgiveness and i do agree that i think it's very selfish or a mother to do this on the other hand she's touched so many more lives than she would have if she would have kept herself. i'm. it all the objection and debate even moses corps continued her mission 'd 3 months after forgiving the nazis even open the candles museum in a small strip mall in terre haute it remains the only museum in the world specifically commemorating the twins in the magnolia experiments and advocating forgiveness the museum is dedicated to miriam. hall we are a small museum is small place was a bank message the message is. i move hey 3 of em painted these from all of the plenty to begin with me. tonight it's a company we all know 2 years after opening her museum eva kaur filed a lawsuit against the german pharmaceutical buyer claiming it tested its drugs on concentration camp inmates the claim along with others against further german companies helped lead to a $5000000000.00 settlement a stablished by germany that distributed money to thousands of victims. event if you think they should fail and i think you should. she also released her 1st book she oversaw community projects she pushed to get the holocaust on the curriculum of indiana public schools she became an active force protesting genocide of all kinds she spoke out about racial prejudice and as each year brought more people to her museum the teacher learned something herself that from her new position she had the power to make wives better i know it's some kind of i only speak i be it i had good was my liberal idea of forgiveness i could somehow head out heels and walked. but if i help heal one single person. i am already have. the other records that i have to new if somebody doesn't quite fit him help them 15 accept them for they are. you might help somebody or desperately need to. forgive your lord enemy it more here your soul and the will set you free. dylan parent and katrina wimps out were both victims of horrendous violent assault they say that without eva they wouldn't be alive today. even gave me forgiveness as an option or as a path that i could take as a method of healing and it was something that i thought was completely out of my power and out of my control and. completely on the other team and she said forgive not for them for you. and i made it all the difference just forgive me but all this weight on my shoulders just went away. and she did that for me and it's the biggest thing anyone's ever done and. not even a tragic setback could weaken her determination. a little piece of history is lost tonight on nov 18th 2003 the candles museum was destroyed by arson so much more and so much one of the nights. it kicked off a movement the reconstruction of beavis museum put her back in the national spotlight but this time the public was far more sympathetic. a book or should buy a book or was going to the structure of her kindles museum and terrible proud to reveal her sacrifice never husband might ensure that those who may be exposed the big intolerance and bigotry will also be exposed to love charity and mutual respect even michael thank you for being with us. even some of those who remained adamantly opposed to forgiving the nazis began to respect the force for good evil was becoming the. what evil called. shoes increased cautiousness the holocaust she used the as a vehicle so called races in the protests to argue for human rights and human decency to educate the younger generation she's built an institution that looks like it's going to take off. what a magnificent contribution was. over time things began to change the state of indiana which had been particularly welcoming to the lonely and struggling immigrant was proudly proclaiming her as one of its own a jewish community in which she too long been an outcast began seeing her in a new light and steven spielberg show a foundation memorialized her with an interactive hologram. do you think another holocaust is possible. over the eating all the bullshit. and somewhere along the line this woman who had felt so alone found something new she knows she's not alone that. she knows she has all of us. she knows she has. 1000 of them about thousands of people who appreciate. the struggle she has been through and what she does. for them and others. in 2017 at age 83 evil moses course seemed unstoppable a video interview with buzz feed got more than $185000000.00 views and speeches once in front of dozens were now in front of thousands yet at heart even remained the small town woman she'd been for nearly 60 years and the core family had been through a lot like mickey their daughter rena doesn't like to talk about the holocaust but they stuck together through it all and even as thrice weekly lectures at her museum remain. in must. i see it every day. doesn't matter what she's going through. she needs this new thing and she needs to be here. she is a deal was she to us. yet once again as always there was auschwitz. she returned every year leading tours no longer to protest but to pay respect to teach to not let the world forget. but the pain remained if i let myself feel. i remember holy words and the beds. in the floor the not fun. but things changed in her later years it was at auschwitz that even most of score felt most alive. when i come back here i will come back as soon the. i come back as a victorious survivor. we are free we hope. that's what she offers. and that's what the world needs. that's kind of the the beauty of either it really fight each the war we celebrate the fight the you know a survivor gets give an award i know he was being given was wonderful and so she should know we haven't actually done is turned around and said people like eva thank you. thank you in spite of the fire that you had everything taken from you everything destroyed that you had no hope of justice whatsoever personally that you have pursued the truth relentlessly and what's more you then go on to say. i want you to learn to forgive one another but 1st that will lead to greater kindness in our world. we should be sent thank you never mind she has no right to forgive or will just thank you for the struggle. i would just say good work. good work for you while you are succeeding. that. i would say mom. i'm very proud of you they may think. of that worn out. of your mother i put my my i begged her for. she rolls me and she led and she wires and she while me and she is mighty and she is the best. or worst. in so many people's lives. she where. she lives. mom i don't know the story you all for guiding likely my life i send their message where it's a would you be proud of me. i hope so i hope that my message that comes directly from 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